Home Attendance

Overall 2000 regular season attendance in Major League Baseball was a record 72,782,013 in 2,416 games for an average per game crowd of 30,125; numbers in parentheses indicate ranking in 1999; HD indicates home dates; Attendance is based on tickets sold.

American League

Attendance

HD

Average

1

Cleveland (2)

3,456,278

81

42,670

2

Baltimore (1)

3,297,031

81

40,704

3

New York (3)

3,227,657

80

40,346

4

Seattle (4)

3,148,317

81

38,868

5

Texas (5)

2,800,075

80

35,001

6

Boston (6)

2,585,895

81

31,925

7

Detroit (9)

2,533,753

81

31,281

8

Anaheim (7)

2,066,982

81

25,518

9

Chicago (13)

1,947,799

80

24,347

10

Toronto (8)

1,819,919

81

22,468

11

Oakland (12)

1,728,885

81

21,344

12

Kansas City (11)

1,677,915

81

20,715

13

Tampa Bay (10)

1,549,592

80

19,370

14

Minnesota (14)

1,059,415

81

13,079

TOTALS

32,899,513

1130

29,115

National League

Attendance

HD

Average

1

Colorado (1)

3,293,354

81

40,659

2

St. Louis (2)

3,336,493

81

41,191

3

Atlanta (3)

3,234,304

81

39,930

4

Los Angeles (4)

3,011,539

81

37,179

5

Arizona (5)

2,942,251

81

36,324

6

Chicago (6)

2,734,511

79

34,614

7

New York (7)

2,766,160

77

35,924

8

Houston (8)

3,054,139

81

37,705

9

San Diego (9)

2,423,142

81

29,915

10

San Francisco (10)

3,319,340

81

40,980

11

Cincinnati (11)

2,577,371

81

31,819

12

Philadelphia (12)

1,612,769

80

20,160

13

Milwaukee (13)

1,573,621

79

19,919

14

Pittsburgh (14)

1,748,908

79

22,138

15

Florida (15)

1,218,326

80

15,229

16

Montreal (16)

926,272

81

11,435

TOTALS

39,772,500

1284

30,975

Note: Not included in the above table are the two games played in Japan between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets. A total of 110,000 fans attended the two games.